[Journal/Method/spoonfeed] The 'Crashed Challenge' 30 Days to Money...

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Day 0: WordPress setup and housekeeping

Just like when you have a party, setup and making things look pretty is crucial to making money online as well (well I think so neways). So that is where we will start, once we have this done we have a solid foundation to build from.

By the end of todays task you will have:

• •WordPress set up and configured
• •WordPress Themes and Plug-ins configured
• •Your About Page
• •Your Privacy Policy

WordPress Setup and Configuration

Sometimes it pays to be lazy, and most decent webhosts using cPanel will also supply you with Fantastico which does a great job of taking care of the technical side of things for you. The steps to take are basically as follow:

1.Log into cPanel
2.Create a new email account that you will use for your new site, I created [email protected]
3.Use Fantastico De Luxe to install WordPress
4.Log into the new wordpress installation
5.Update WordPress to the latest automatically
6.Change the Settings to make sure that everyone that visits our websites visits www.bestfootballgoals.info and not bestfootballgoals.info. This makes sure that Google will not give us a penalty for having duplicate content as these two different versions of our website address appear as different websites...
To view how to do these steps, please watch this video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIM7KLRivNo


Configure WordPress Theme's and Plugins

One of the most effective changes you can make is to make your blog look different from everyone else's. There are thousands of theme's avaliable for wordpress, and tons of plugins that can enhance functionality. Here is my basic set-up.

1.Click on Themes and then Install Theme
2.Search for a theme either by the niche you are targeting, or by it's colour scheme etc
3.When you find a theme you like, click install and activate.
4.Now goto the Plugin's section, click Add New
5.Enter "All In One SEO" and click search, find the "All In One SEO Pack" plugin in the list and click Install Now then Activate
6.Once activated a red bar will show, click config now.
7.Set the Plugin to Enabled, enter a title, description and add a few keywords (we will change these later so do not worry too much) and click Update Options.
8.In the Settings menu on the left click Permalinks and set it to Month and Title (lets us get keywords into the URL which is good for Google)
9.Goto the Settings->Privacy page and make sure that it is set to be visible to everyone.
10.Goto the Settings->Discussions page and change the Default Avatar to be anything but Mystery Man (I like MonsterID)
11.Goto the Settings->Reading page and set it to show 5 posts per page, and to only include the summary in the RSS feed (this makes it harder for people to steal your content)
12.Go back to the Plugins Page, click Add New and search for "Sharedaddy", click install now, and activate it.
13.Goto the settings page for Sharedaddy and drag and drop all the options on the grey "active" box. Click the down arrow on the facebook button and change it to show the "Like Button". Set it to open in a New Window and click Save Settings.
14.Now delete the default Post
15.Add some catergories using keywords related to your niche
16.Delete the default page

To follow this step-by-step please watch the video below.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htt2zMNPw58


Your About Page

The most basic thing in the world is an about page yet I see so many people getting this wrong. Simply write around 500 words on what your website is about and why people should use it. Personalise it and tell people why you started it and how important the topic is to you...

This video shows the creation of our About page in super-fast forward mode.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1uOXrQoU_M

Your Privacy Policy

Another thing that a lot of people miss or forget to do is add a Privacy Policy. The first part of this is extremely simple, however the second part may be slightly more confusing.

1.Goto the plugins page, and click Add New.
2.Enter "Exclude Pages" and click search. Find it in the list, click Install Now, click Ok and then Activate Plugin.
3.Now click Add New, enter "Easy Privacy Policy" and click search. Find it in the list, click Install Now, click OK and then Activate Plugin.
4.Click Settings->Privacy Policy, review the text, untick the "Include a credit link for the Easy Privacy Plugin (thanks)" box at the bottom and then click "Create Policy Page". Keep the default page address.
5.Now click Pages on the menu, click Edit on the Privacy Policy page, and untick the "Include this page on page lists" box on the bottom right. Click Update.
6.Goto Appearance on the menu and click Editor, in the list that appears on the right click footer.
7.Now you want to look for "<div id="footer">" in this file. Copy and paste the code below right after this before anything else.

<a href="/privacy-policy">Privacy Policy</a><br />

If you get stuck feel free to message me. Today's last video demonstrates this...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvzWESKCSzs


I am off to sleep for a bit and will answer questions when I wake!

 

[jonimay]

Subscribed! Looking forward to what you are going to share and giving thanks in advance for taking precious time out to do so!

 

[ThisDream]

Subscribed! Good job thus far with Day 0 update. Did you have some niche in your mind when you created that domain name? Most likely your audience will be UK targeted, since this brand isn't so popular in USA. Might be wrong, anyways keep it up!

 

[tap1on]

awesome mate! This should really help all new ones to start see some earnings

 

[henhen10]

WOW it sounds great i will follow this every day!!!

 

[Carlsson]

This will be an amazing experience..! Thanks OP for the first lesson, though I already knew all of that it's really kind of you.. (waiting for DNS to propage)

 

[ioneld]

subscribed

 

[Silly]

Day one done
In you step by step Your Privacy Policy point 3 you forgot to say what plugin it is ( Easy Privacy Police).

It have a probleme with the code :

It's not center in the footer and don't know where to put it.

    <div class="art-footer">
                <div class="art-footer-t"></div>
                <div class="art-footer-l"></div>
                <div class="art-footer-b"></div>
                <div class="art-footer-r"></div>
                <div class="art-footer-body">
                    <?php get_sidebar('footer'); ?>
                    <a href="<?php bloginfo('rss2_url'); ?>" class='art-rss-tag-icon' title="<?php printf(__('%s RSS Feed', THEME_NS), get_bloginfo('name')); ?>"></a>
                  <div class="art-footer-text">
                      <?php  echo do_shortcode(art_get_option('art_footer_content')); ?>
                  </div>
              <div class="cleared"></div>
                </div>
            </div>
      <div class="cleared"></div>
        </div>
    </div>
    <div class="cleared"></div>
    <p class="art-page-footer">Powered by <a href="[URL]http://wordpress.org/">WordPress</a[/URL]> and <a href="[URL]http://www.artisteer.com/?p=wordpress_themes">WordPress[/URL] Theme</a> created with Artisteer.</p>
</div>
    </div>
</div>
    <div id="wp-footer">
         <?php wp_footer(); ?>
         <!-- <?php printf(__('%d queries. %s seconds.', THEME_NS), get_num_queries(), timer_stop(0, 3)); ?> -->
    </div>
</body>
</html>

thanks, waiting for day 2

May we post or blog link in the post?

EDIT Have find my error, it was in my theme options
Edit 2 : Have added your website as backlink in my footer

 

[panoet]

5.Enter ?All In One SEO? and click search, find the ?All In One SEO Pack? plugin in the list and click Install Now then Activate

I'm using Platinum SEO Plugin. I think its ok, right?

 

[fuskaren]

Very nice with video tutorials. I want to see how this goes! Hope you'll make cash!

 

[wishmeluck]

Great stuff, will follow day by day for sure.

Just wondering, I have a few spare domains, does it matter what topic I should choose to try the method on?

how will you monetize on this domain?

Do you have a projection of how much $$$ you will make by the end of day 30?

Really appreciate your effort, wish you all the best!

 

[Royalserviceteam]

following and hope after one month we will learn a full method of ranking a new domain.

 

[crashed]

Subscribed! Good job thus far with Day 0 update. Did you have some niche in your mind when you created that domain name? Most likely your audience will be UK targeted, since this brand isn't so popular in USA. Might be wrong, anyways keep it up!

I had no niche in mind, it was a random domain I typed in that was avaliable... I don't even know what the competition is yet because as far as I am concerned that is not too important.

Last question, will it work if I do a french site?

Definately! In fact it'll probably boost your ranking in local google. The only thing to be aware of is that a lot of advertisers require english sites so you may be restricted here.

Day one done
In you step by step Your Privacy Policy point 3 you forgot to say what plugin it is ( Easy Privacy Police).

<SNIP>

thanks, waiting for day 2

May we post or blog link in the post?

EDIT Have find my error, it was in my theme options
Edit 2 : Have added your website as backlink in my footer

Nice catch on the plugin name, Have updated it to show in the list.. I would prefer it if you didn't link to my site as it may affect the SEO as I want to demonstrate this with no outside help... (unless you are referring to crashedchallenge.info? )

I'm using Platinum SEO Plugin. I think its ok, right?

I've not experience with this plugin, though if it does the same as All in One SEO Pack it should be fine.

Great stuff, will follow day by day for sure.

Just wondering, I have a few spare domains, does it matter what topic I should choose to try the method on?

how will you monetize on this domain?

Do you have a projection of how much $$$ you will make by the end of day 30?

Really appreciate your effort, wish you all the best!

It doesn't matter what topic you chose, you can earn from anything if you are creative.

Monetization will come soon, I don't know until I do it

Projection of $$$ is anything above 0

 

[matroos]

subscribed, i'll play

 

[zerocoolflo]

Another valuable member that like to help people...

I also have the knowledge of an intermediate and when I'm finishing with my adsense websites ( 11 at number ) probably I'm going to start a thread just like yours with step by step tuts...

Anyways keep them coming, they are refreshing and also interesting

 

[carrepairs12]

good job op, just wanted people to know if you want to subscribe to a thread just go to the top post and on the button that says thread tools click on that and subscribe instead of posting subscribed

 

[Silly]

Ok, removing the link to your soccer blog. I can add your crashedchallenge.info if you want. If yes what anchor text do you want?

 

[crashed]

Ok, removing the link to your soccer blog. I can add your crashedchallenge.info if you want. If yes what anchor text do you want?

If you link it just use the text "Crashed Challenge".

Is the method all about throwing up some youtube football videos,putting some annotations to click the link below to watch the full football video and monetizing it with content lockers?
I tried this method long back and earned 500$ during Fifa World Cup,but the conversions with content lockers are pretty low for this as you can watch those videos elsewhere without bothering to fill up some surveys

No, however that method may play a part in my traffic stragety....

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A quick FYI, the crashedchallenge.info domain was registered Saturday night, indexed by google Sunday, and now (Monday) has 7 pages Indexed. AwStats already shows 97 unique visitors (include 3 from google) and the site is less than 3 days old.

In tommorow's task we will be looking at how to do this for our new website.

 

[ContentCreation]

Subbed!

Can i just ask: what type of sites work best with your method? Micro-niche?

 

[cybermeid]

Is the method all about throwing up some youtube football videos,putting some annotations to click the link below to watch the full football video and monetizing it with content lockers?
I tried this method long back and earned 500$ during Fifa World Cup,but the conversions with content lockers are pretty low for this as you can watch those videos elsewhere without bothering to fill up some surveys